KITTERY (AP) — Workers at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard will be exempt from the Defense Department’s plan to furlough 680,000 of its civilian employees for 11 days through the end of the fiscal year.
The Pentagon will allow the Navy to avoid furloughs for tens of thousands of workers at shipyards, including 6,000 at Kittery.
The workers will be exempt because it would be difficult to make up delays in maintenance work on nuclear vessels, officials said. Furlough notices are to be issued May 28; unpaid days off are to begin July 8.
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